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Ancient Egyptian faience tile.

These tiles are made of a material called Egyptian faience. This is composed of crushed quartz mixed with small amounts of lime and natron or plant ash. This mixture when moistened could be formed into shape like pottery, and then heated to harden. By adding copper salts to the mix the blue-green glaze naturally occurred during the firing.
The tiles from the Step Pyramid were made in moulds. On the back are projections with holes for stringing the tiles together before they were pressed into the plaster on the walls. 
The tiles were not simply decorative, but were full of symbolism for the king’s afterlife. Imitating reed matting, they recreated the ‘field of reed’, the afterlife paradise where the king would spend eternity. The blue green colour also had symbolic value signifying new growth and regeneration. The colour was also connected with water, evoking the primeval waters from which the world was created and from which the king would emerge reborn.

Size: 6 x 3,5 cm
Period: c. 2600 B.C.
Material: Faience
Provenance: English collection, collected before 1980's

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Egypt - 3rd Dynasty, c. 2650 BC.

Egyptian faience tile - 6 cm

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